Performance

Cape Cod Dance Center is pleased to announce its upcoming Spring Performances 2011. This yesr Cape Cod Dance Center will present the ballet Carmen and Dancing Through Time which will showcase dances in lyical, jazz, tap, hip hop, contemporary dance and more.

In December 2011, Cape Cod Dance Center will present once again the holiday classic The Nutcracker .

Our ballet productions have drawn over 1500 audience members each year. The performances are produced and directed by Eveline Carle. For more information contact the studio at 508-564-6165.

Paquita
Spring 2010
Paquita was staged for the first time in Russia in 1847 to the music of composer Ludwig Minkus. The ballet tells the story of young woman named Paquita, rescued from a massacre as a child by gypsies, who, years later, while traveling and dancing with the gypsy band, returns to her home to wed. The most famous scene in the ballet is the Grand Pas Classique, one of the cornerstone of the traditional classical ballet repertory which is performed at a ball at the home of the Comte d'Henrilly, her uncle.

La Fille Mal Gardée
Spring 2009
La Fille Mal Gardée is the oldest and most important work in the modern ballet repertory. The ballet has been kept alive throughout its long and complex performance history by various revivals. The simplicity and familiarity of the characters and the humor in each scene has lent the ballet its popularity.

Giselle
Spring 2008
Giselle is the crowning achievement of the romantic era of ballet, and the most poetic of all nineteenth-century full-length works. Giselle tells the tale of young women who died before their wedding day but whose love of dancing keeps them from eternal rest.

Gaite Parisienne
Spring 2007
Gaite Parisienne is known as the ballet from which the popular french can-can arised. Premiering in 1938, with choreography by Leonide Massine, Gaite Parisenne was one of the most popular ballets in the repertory of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Les Sylphides
Spring 2007
Les Sylphides is famous as the first "abstract" classical ballet without a narrative structure or defined characters. Les Sylphides is composed of a suite of dances on the music of Frederick Chopin in the romantic atmosphere of a moonlit park. The sylphides, (magical figures, half woman, half ghost), dance in search of the ideal. The corps de ballet is on stage almost throughout, used in decorative groups when not actually dancing. The ballet is in the repertory of nearly every company in the world.

Coppelia Spring 2006
Set to the music of Leo Delibes, Coppelia, tells the story of Dr. Coppelius, a toymaker and magician who attempts to bring life to his beautiful doll, Coppélia.